Putting Contrast to Work with Your iPhone
The iPhone 5s makes a fantastic camera, especially when it’s the only one you’ve got, with an assist from Snapseed.
The iPhone 5s makes a fantastic camera, especially when it’s the only one you’ve got, with an assist from Snapseed.
There’s an ebb and flow to life, like day and night, on Maine’s coastal waters.
Contrasts are frequently meaningful; but in the case of lobster traps on a Maine wharf, that depends.
Photography excels at capturing contrasts—between dark and light, shadow and bright, death and life.
For me, reading, writing, photography and painting are all intertwined like a tangle of sticky spaghetti.
Is your creative personality fed by travel, productivity, fashion, caffeine or . . . what? Here’s what stokes eight different creative types.
Finding the subtle similarities, and the contrasts, between things is one way to make photographs richer.
A life lost, a photograph found but words, not. Some days are just that: wordless.
When you expected the unexpected, serendipity can become your photographic assistant.
It’s always sweet to find that unexpected reward in your photographs—that unexpected extra detail to make the shot an image.
Curiosity can shift your attitude so that you’re seeing magic in what’s been seemingly mundane, and your creativity will skyrocket.
What does a photograph mean to me? To you? Photographs, like all art, elicit our emotions and our reactions, and the connections that we make with them. What touches me […]
Whether you’ve already got a serious art habit, or you’re just starting to collect art, take a stroll through my new Naturescapes Shop.
Follow the 11 Commandments of Writing and Daily Creative Routine, according to Henry Miller, in 1932.
As practitioners of creativity, we’re inspired by our voyeuristic natures. And cities offer much room to look inside for ideas.